Rediscovering the British World
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Rediscovering the British World

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Rediscovering the British World

About this book

Rediscovering the British World is one part of an ongoing attempt to approach British Imperial history from a different viewpoint, placing the colonies of settlement at the centre. Editors Phillip Buckner and Douglas Francis have included nineteen essays from expert scholars in the field, which cover a broad range of cultural, social, and intellectual topics in British imperial history from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The essays focus on the history of Britain and the Empire, with considerable emphasis on the self-governing dominions of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. They attempt to show the centrality of the Empire in the history of the nations created by the British diaspora overseas, while at the same time calling into question the extent of the existence of a "British World." The goal is not to wax nostalgic, but rather to re-examine the complex phenomenon of this far-reaching empire and to shed light on the ways in which it has shaped our world. With contributions by: James BelichFrank BongiornoBettina BradburyPatrick H. BrennanPhillip BucknerElizabeth ElbourneR. Douglas Francis Jeffrey GreyCatherine HallJohn LambertDouglas LorimerDavid LoweStuart MacintyreAdele PerryPaul PickeringSatadru SenR. Scott SheffieldPaul WardStuart WardWendy Webster

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Information

Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Year
2006
eBook ISBN
9781552384381
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Bibliographic Information
  4. CONTENTS
  5. Introduction
  6. CHAPTER 1: What Did a British World Mean to the British?
  7. CHAPTER 2: The Rise of the Angloworld
  8. CHAPTER 3: Indigenous Peoples and Imperial Networks in the Early Nineteenth Century
  9. CHAPTER 4: Loyalty and Rebellion in Colonial Politics
  10. CHAPTER 5: From Victorian Values to White Virtues
  11. CHAPTER 6: Colonial Comparisons
  12. CHAPTER 7: Interlocuting Empire
  13. CHAPTER 8: The Long Goodbye
  14. CHAPTER 9: Fabian Socialism and British Australia, 1890-1972
  15. CHAPTER 10: War and the British World in the Twentieth Century
  16. CHAPTER 11: The Other Battle
  17. CHAPTER 12: Empire and Everyday
  18. CHAPTER 13: Britishness, South Africanness, and the First World War
  19. CHAPTER 14: The Migrant's Empire
  20. CHAPTER 15: The Empire Answers
  21. CHAPTER 16: Rehabilitating the Indigene
  22. CHAPTER 17: Australia's Cold War
  23. CHAPTER 18: History Wars and the Imperial Legacy in the Settler Societies
  24. CHAPTER 19: Worlds Apart
  25. END NOTES
  26. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  27. INDEX
  28. Back Cover
  29. Front Cover